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  • THE POISON SONG (THE WINNOWING FLAME TRILOGY 3)
    THE POISON SONG (THE WINNOWING FLAME TRILOGY 3)
    JEN WILLIAMS
    From two time British Fantasy Award-winning author, Jen Williams, comes the epic conclusion to the Winnowing Flame trilogy. Exhilarating fantasy for fans of Robin Hobb. 'One of the best fantasy novels of the year, if not the decade' James Oswald 'A fitting finale, triumphant and bittersweet in all the best ways' SciFiNow All is chaos. All is confusion. The Jure'lia are weak,...
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  • KING LEAR
    KING LEAR
    WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
    'The most perfect specimen of the dramatic art existing in the world' Percy Bysshe ShelleyShakespeare's bleak and brutal tragedy begins when an ageing king, seeking a successor, rejects the young daughter who loves him and misplaces his trust in her malevolent sisters. In return they strip him of his power and condemn him to a wretched wasteland of horror and insanity. Set in a...
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  • CARMILLA, DELUXE EDITION
    CARMILLA, DELUXE EDITION
    SHERIDAN LE FANU
    A beautifully produced edition of the original vampire story, with a stunning cover + thoughtful design and layout to ensure the most seductive reading experienceSteeped in the sexual tension between two young women, this is a beautiful, brand-new edition of the original cult classic which influenced Dracula and all the vampire stories that followed, including Anne Rice's Vampi...
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    13,75 €

  • TOUCHED BY THE SUN
    TOUCHED BY THE SUN
    CARLY SIMON
    A chance encounter at a summer party on Martha's Vineyard blossomed into an improbable but enduring friendship. Carly Simon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis made an unlikely pair - Carly, a free and artistic spirit still reeling from her recent divorce, searching for meaning, new love, and an anchor; and Jackie, one of the most celebrated, meticulous, unknowable women in American...
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  • SKETCHY, DOUBTFUL, INCOMPLETE JOTTINGS
    SKETCHY, DOUBTFUL, INCOMPLETE JOTTINGS
    JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
    'I can promise to be candid, not, however, to be impartial.' A selection of the most insightful maxims and reflections from one of Germany's greatest ever thinkers. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. ...
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  • GILGAMESH
    GILGAMESH
    EMILY H. WILSON
    The second book in the enthralling and lyrical Sumerians trilogy, retelling the Epic of Gilgamesh, perfect for fans of Madeline Miller, Lucy Holland and Jennifer Saint.Now is the time for the gods of warGilgamesh, soon to be crowned King of Uruk, travels north to find his homelands in flames and his family on the run. A blood-red moon brings warnings of a new kind of war, and i...
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  • ROMEO AND JULIET
    ROMEO AND JULIET
    WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
    With a foreword by Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places and Breathless'For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo' A bloody feud. A tangled love. A senseless tragedy that brings two families to their knees. After a chance meeting at a ball, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall desperately in love. But their families are locked in a bitter ...
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  • NOT RUSSIAN
    NOT RUSSIAN
    MIKHAIL SHEVELEV
    A gripping, illuminating novel about recent Russian aggressions and the humans caught in the crossfire ...
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    18,75 €

  • BRITAIN AFTER ROME
    BRITAIN AFTER ROME
    ROBIN FLEMING
    The enormous hoard of beautiful gold military objects found in a field in Staffordshire has focused huge attention on the mysterious world of 7th and 8th century Britain. Clearly the product of a sophisticated, wealthy, highly militarized society, the objects beg innumerable questions about how we are to understand the people who once walked across the same landscape we inhabit...
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  • DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE WITH THE MERRY MEN AND OTHER STORIES
    DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE WITH THE MERRY MEN AND OTHER STORIES
    ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
    With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Tim Middleton, Head of English Studies, University of Ripon and York. In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a monster. First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man's nature, and it is the book which established Stevenson's reputation as a...
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  • ECLIPSE
    ECLIPSE
    STEPHENIE MEYER
    Bella?'Edward's soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, and kissed me again. His kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine - like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us.As Seattle is ravaged by a...
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  • A HORSE AT NIGHT
    A HORSE AT NIGHT
    AMINA CAIN
    "In Amina Cain's first nonfiction book, a series of essayistic inquiries come together to form a sustained meditation on writers and their works, on the spaces of reading and writing fiction, and how these spaces take shape inside a life. Driven by primary questions of authenticity and freedom in the shadow of ecological and social collapse, Cain moves associatively through a p...
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  • ANIMAL FARM
    ANIMAL FARM
    GEORGE ORWELL
    The perfect edition for any Orwell enthusiasts' collection, discover Orwell's classic dystopian masterpiece beautifully reimagined by renowned street artist Shepard Fairey 'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership o...
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  • NO PLACE LEFT TO HIDE
    NO PLACE LEFT TO HIDE
    MEGAN LALLY
    Some secrets just won't stay hidden in this twisty new thriller from New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Megan Lally! To Brooke, image is everything. She works hard to maintain perfect grades, perfect looks, a perfect life-especially after "the incident" that threatened it all. Getting into her dream university puts her that much closer to a fresh start. How can sh...
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    11,25 €

  • DOUBLE DOWN
    DOUBLE DOWN
    JEFF KINNEY
    THE ONE WITH THE HALLOWEEN CANDY The eleventh laugh-out-loud, fully-illustrated Diary of a Wimpy Kid book from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney! A global phenomenon with 250 million copies of the series sold worldwide! The pressure's really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mum thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wants her son to put down the ...
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  • SPAIN AND THE HISPANIC WORLD
    SPAIN AND THE HISPANIC WORLD
    PATRICK LENAGHAN
    A handsome introduction to the history and holdings of the beloved New York Hispanic institutionThe Hispanic Society of America in New York is the vision of Archer M. Huntington (1870-1955). From an early age, Huntington developed an abiding love both of Hispanic culture and of museums and libraries. He resolved to devote his considerable fortune to combining these two passions...
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    24,95 €

  • SILVER UNDER NIGHTFALL
    SILVER UNDER NIGHTFALL
    RIN CHUPECO
    THE MOST EXCITING GOTHIC ROMANTASY YOU'LL READ ALL YEAR! 'Sharp, thrilling, with a hell of a bite' K. S. Villoso Remy Pendergast is a masterful hunter, but rumours that he's half-vampire are tarnishing his reputation among fellow Reapers. Desperate to clear his name and investigate newly mutated bloodsuckers, Remy sets out alone . . . until fate intervenes. Enter Xiaodan Son...
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  • THE BOOKSHOP
    THE BOOKSHOP
    PENELOPE FITZGERALD
    Soon to be a major motion film, starring Bill Nighy, Emily Mortimer and Patricia Clarkson. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop -- the only bookshop -- in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shop...
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  • FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
    FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
    HUNTER S. THOMPSON
    Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream. 'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold... And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and ...
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    13,75 €

  • GIFTED AND TALENTED
    GIFTED AND TALENTED
    OLIVIE BLAKE
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Succession meets magic in Gifted & Talented by Olivie Blake. This is the story of three siblings who, upon the death of their father, are forced to reckon with their long-festering rivalries, dangerous abilities and the crushing weight of all their unrealized adolescent potential. Where there's a will, there's a war. ...
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  • THE FIRE NEXT TIME
    THE FIRE NEXT TIME
    JAMES BALDWIN
    'It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate' Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice, drawn from Baldwin's early life in Harlem and his exper...
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  • THE OTTOMANS
    THE OTTOMANS
    MARC DAVID BAER
    The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic-Asian antithesis of the Christian-European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans' multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep into Europe's heart. In their breadth and versatility, the Ottoman rulers saw themselves as the new Romans. Recounting the Ottomans' remarkable rise from ...
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  • THE PIGEON FINDS A HOT DOG!
    THE PIGEON FINDS A HOT DOG!
    MO WILLEMS
    The pigeon's back! When the pigeon discovers a delicious hot dog, he can hardly wait to shove the entire thing in his beak. But then a hungry, clever little duckling enters the scene and wants a bite. Will he manage to outsmart the pigeon and get his share of the hot dog? ...
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  • POEMS, BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
    POEMS, BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
    OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
    Excerpt from The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caroline Under the Washington Elm, Cambridge International Ode. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art t...
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    16,08 €

  • DEAR LIFE
    DEAR LIFE
    ALICE MUNRO
    **Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** Alice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant new collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. ...
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  • CROSS THE LINE
    CROSS THE LINE
    SIMONE SOLTANI
    The unmissable sweet and spicy, brother's-best-friend Formula 1 sports romance, for fans of Chloe Liese and Hannah Grace. 'Fast, furious and unforgettable' - Bal Khabra, bestselling author of Collide Formula 1 driver Dev Anderson's career is on the line. After a social media disaster leaves him with an angry team and sponsors threatening to jump ship, he needs someone to help...
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  • THE ROAD TO THE COUNTRY
    THE ROAD TO THE COUNTRY
    CHIGOZIE OBIOMA
    FROM THE TWICE BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and the New American Voices Award Named a Best Book of the Year by the Boston Globe, Economist, and Kirkus Reviews 'A major voice' SALMAN RUSHDIE 'Remarkable' ALICE WALKER 'A sweeping, heart-racing, mystical novel' NEW YORK TIMES When a country is torn apart by c...
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  • ABBA AT 50
    ABBA AT 50
    CARL MAGNUS PALM
    An illustrated celebration of ABBA, from childhood through the Voyage album Emerging victorious from Eurovision in 1974 with winning tune "Waterloo," ABBA catapulted to fame and captured hearts across the world with their melodic and ever-so catchy pop songs. Formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, ABBA became ...
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    37,50 €

  • ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
    ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
    LEWIS CARROLL
    Chiltern creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colors of these remarkable covers make these titles feel extra special and will look striking on any shelf. This book has a matching lined journal (sold separately). They make a gr...
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    19,95 €

  • THE WHALE AT THE END OF THE WORLD
    THE WHALE AT THE END OF THE WORLD
    JOHN IRONMONGER
    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A gentle and uplifting tale of warding off apocalypse in a remote corner of Cornwall . . . charming' Financial Times 'A tremendously enjoyable book' Independent on Sunday 'Bloody brilliant' Liz Fenwick, author of The Cornish House It all began with the whale. When a young man washes up on the sands of St Piran in Cornwall, it is clear to the vi...
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    13,75 €